Topic: #featured
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BNB Chain targets 1M TPS with AI agents as token hits 2024 lows
BNB Chain is overhauling its architecture to process 1 million transactions per second and integrate protocol-level privacy, targeting traditional finance and autonomous AI agents. The pivot comes as BNB token has fallen more than 35% this year to $563, its lowest since October 2024.
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Bitcoin faces capital reallocation as mega-IPO wave targets institutional pools
OpenAI's confidential S-1 filing and a record $160 billion IPO pipeline threaten to redirect the institutional capital that drove Bitcoin to $126,000, as AI and semiconductor stocks increasingly compete for the same risk-appetite allocation.
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Zcash Orchard exploit reveals cryptographic supply integrity gap
A security researcher at Shielded Labs discovered a critical exploit in Zcash's Orchard protocol using AI on May 29, which could have generated unlimited counterfeit ZEC. Zcash executed emergency forks within days, but the privacy design makes proving the supply was never tampered with cryptographically difficult.
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UK sanctions A7 crypto network for processing $90 billion for Russia
The UK sanctioned the A7 network and 17 other entities on May 26, applying banking-level restrictions to crypto exchanges for the first time under its Russia sanctions regime. The A7 network claims to have moved over $90 billion in 2025 alone.